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Will Notley, cart and dog

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Will Notley, cart and dog

Will Notely and cart

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Will Notely and his cart. On the side of the cart is written 'W Notely My Motor Car'.

Boys Scout Troup

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Stradbroke Boys Scout Troup - Webb 155

Elegant Haymakers

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Elegant Haymakers. W150

Horse and Cart at Haymaking

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Horse and Cart at Haymaking. W149

The Chapmans at Wilby Green

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The Chapmans at Wilby Green

Horse and rider at the Court House

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Horse and rider at the Court House - Webb 144
The Court House was originally The Corn Hall. The building was commissioned from public donation, mainly farmers and tradesmen, and erected in 1854. The Revd. Allen placed a message on parchment in a…

Builders at the Queens Head

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Builders at the Queens Head. W138

Nurses in Uniform - Red Cross and VAD, 26th September 1912

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Nurses in Uniform.
Mrs Nunn of Rookery Hall sits front row and to the right of centre figure and was a nurse during both WW1 and WW2.
(JW,RW,UW,MW)

Jack Foulsham Camping

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The information given to SLHG is that this is Jack Foulsham Camping. Research shows that John (Jack) Foulsham was born 1839 Yoxley, to Joseph and Sarah Foulsham. He married Susan E Chandler in 1861 and together they had 8 children as shown on the…

Harry Webb - Stradbroke Photographer

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Harry Webb - Stradbroke Photographer
Born Henry Arthur Webb 1878 to Catherine and Benjamin Webb - the village postmaster and schoolmaster. Harry had an older sister, Isabelle and an older brother John Charles. His brother died early 1900's and…

Siah Potter a Suffolk Character

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Siah Potter died in 1962 at the age of 71. Frank Ward wrote of him ‘He was something more than just a picturesque countryman, the city dweller’s idealized view of a rustic. . . . a handsome nose, twinkling piercing eyes and a mouth which constantly…

Siah Potter obituary

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Siah Potter obituary

Road Worker resting in front of a gate

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Road Worker resting in front of a gate

The Pulham family and the Bender family

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The Pulham family and the Bender family

Builders and craftsmen

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Builders and craftsmen

Two gentlemen sitting in a garden

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Two gentlemen sitting in a garden

Louisa Cooper nee Mayhew seated at the window at The Priory

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Louisa Cooper nee Mayhew seated at the window at The Priory.
Louisa Mayhew married Godfrey Cooper- a cousin of Dame Gladys Cooper, actress(hearsay)- but sadly the marriage did not last.

The Parlour

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Woman seated at a table in The Parlour

A Family together

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A Family together.

Family with a baby in a pushchair

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Family with a baby in a pushchair

Seven heads in the hay

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Seven bonneted heads in the hay at harvest time

Working on the new tennis courts 1939

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Working on the new tennis courts 1939 - John Corbett, J Grimwood, H Grayson

Harsent and wife

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Harsent and wife.
A search through the census returns only shows a Mr George Harsent aged 48 and Hannah 49 living in Stradbroke in 1911. This picture looks as if it were taken a little earlier than that which would put their ages as unlikely. From…

Staff at the Depperhaugh or Thorpe Hall

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Staff at the Depperhaugh or Thorpe Hall

Alf Hawes and his wife

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Alf Hawes and his wife

Siah Potter lighting his pipe at The White Hart public house.

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Siah Potter lighting his pipe at The White Hart public house.

The Ward Family outside their shop in Church Street

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The Ward Family outside their shop in Church Street